From the course: How to Organize Your Time and Your Life

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Three steps for organizing anything

Three steps for organizing anything

- You mentioned there's three steps for organizing anything, the analyze, the strategize, the attack. So, could you kind of walk us through how we might approach that in organizing time or task things for professionals? - Yeah, so, I just was coaching somebody yesterday who is a very overwhelmed executive, incredibly accomplished man in a very senior position in a big mid-sized company, very well-established and he's working like 15 hours a day, seven days a week, he's getting everything done, but the cost is so high. He's exhausted, he can't get to the proactive stuff, he's just doing the reactive stuff and he's not really present for his family or himself and he's spread so thin that it's sort of catching up with him. And so he's like, how do I fix this? So, I can't just come in and say, hey, let's get you a to-do list as a starter. That'd be an outside in approach, right? That's sort of an attack first ask…

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